World, the text, and the critic (Record no. 222723)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0099916207
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Transcribing agency Aloy
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Edition number 23
Classification number 801.95
Item number SAIW
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Personal name Edward W Said
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9 (RLIN) 32868
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Title World, the text, and the critic
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Vintage
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1991
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Extent vi,325p.
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Dimensions 20x13cm
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Source of price type code English
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Summary, etc. This extraordinarily wide-ranging work represents a new departure for contemporary literary theory. Author of Beginnings and the controversial Orientalism, Edward Said demonstrates that modern critical discourse has been impressively strengthened by the writings of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, for example, and by such influences as Marxism, structuralism, linguistics, and psychoanalysis. He argues, however, that the various methods and schools have had a crippling effect through their tendency to force works of literature to meet the requirements of a theory or system, ignoring the complex affiliations binding the texts to the world.<br/><br/>The critic must maintain a distance both from critical systems and from the dogmas and orthodoxies of the dominant culture, Said contends. He advocates freedom of consciousness and responsiveness to history, to the exigencies of the text, to political, social, and human values, to the heterogeneity of human experience. These characteristics are brilliantly exemplified in his own analyses of individual authors and works.<br/><br/>Combining the principles and practice of criticism, the book offers illuminating investigations of a number of writers—Swift, Conrad, Lukács, Renan, and many others—and of concepts such as repetition, originality, worldliness, and the roles of audiences, authors, and speakers. It asks daring questions, investigates problems of urgent significance, and gives a subtle yet powerful new meaning to the enterprise of criticism in modern society.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element English Criticism
9 (RLIN) 32869
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Topical term or geographic name entry element English Literature
9 (RLIN) 32870
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Personal name SAID (Edward W)
9 (RLIN) 32871
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Koha item type George Fernandes Collections
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     English St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 03/24/2013   801.95 SAIW GF02285 04/29/2022 04/29/2022 George Fernandes Collections